Collen Brook Farm
Collen Brook Farm | |
| File:CollenbrookFarm.JPG Collenbrook Farm, November 2009 | |
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| Location | Off Mansion and Marvine Rds., Upper Darby Township, Pennsylvania |
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| Area | 4.9 acres (2.0 ha) |
| Built | c. 1700 – c. 1870 |
| Built by | Mordecai Lawrence |
| Architectural style | Colonial, Georgian Center Hall Plan |
| NRHP reference No. | 88003048[1] |
| Added to NRHP | December 22, 1988 |
Collen Brook Farm, also known as Collenbrook, is a historic home and associated buildings located in Upper Darby Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania. The complex includes three contributing buildings: a farmhouse, a granite spring house (c. 1782), and stone and frame carriage house (c. 1870). The house is a 2+1⁄2-story, vernacular stone residence with a Georgian plan and consisting of three sections. The oldest section was built around 1700, with additions made in 1774, and 1794.
It was the home of noted educator and 19th-century political leader George Smith.[2] Later, Ludlow Ogden Smith, the first husband of Katharine Hepburn, resided here.[3] It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.[1] In the early 1990's, the Smith family intended to turn the house into the "Smith-Lewis Local History Museum," with support from Hepburn.[3]
The 18th-century period farmhouse house is now owned by Upper Darby Township, operated by the Upper Darby Historical Society. and open to the public on Sunday afternoons from May through October.[4]
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- 1700 establishments in Pennsylvania
- Georgian architecture in Pennsylvania
- Historic house museums in Pennsylvania
- Houses completed in 1700
- Houses completed in 1794
- Houses in Delaware County, Pennsylvania
- Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania
- Museums in Delaware County, Pennsylvania
- National Register of Historic Places in Delaware County, Pennsylvania